Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...those days British peers, squires and gentlemen were the nearly undisputed masters of the State, and in 1873 Mayor Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham was considered "vulgar." He acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
Documents VII and VIII give the Czechoslovak Government's official complaint at Adolf Hitler's "unbelievably coarse and vulgar [propaganda] campaign"; go on to affirm that "Hitler's demands in their present form are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable"; then close with a declaration that "the Czechoslovak Government will be ready to take part in an international conference where Germany and Czechoslovakia, among other nations, would be represented, to find a different method of settling the Sudeten German question...
Lenin, she says, could control Zinoviev, Radek, Trotsky, but she insists that he disliked Zinoviev, despised cynical Radek, whom she calls a vulgar politician, and distrusted Trotsky's ambition. As for Stalin, she says he was so little known in 1919 that nobody had any attitude toward him. Her version of Bolshevik history is that Lenin employed Zinoviev to split the labor movement of other countries by all manner of intrigue, that such methods became habitual, were employed by Trotsky as much as by Stalin, led to recent Russian trials. Although Angelica Balabanoff has not lost her faith...
Julie's sister was too respectable to take a job as typist for an ambitious, vulgar, unscrupulous insurance assessor named Goldberg, so Julie took it herself. Before she was 16 she knew that Goldberg was an arsonist, and that she loved him. By the time she was 17 she had become, briefly and unpleasantly, his mistress...